the new foam stringer supports also attach to both the gunwales.



and the chainplate also got re-worked....
The old deck was 10mm ply and we're going to 4mm ply so the plate was going to sit way above the deck, the old holes were filled with the sawdust-resin, then a small piece of 40gsm cloth was applied so it just covered the original ply doubler.

Phil made some new alloy internal plates and these were also resined into place along with the foams stringer support



The new holes for the chainplates were ~10mm lower than the old holes and as you can see the plate's shackle hole is well clear of the gunwale and should have a ~2mm clearance once the deck is fitted.
The other advantage we built in was the resined in internal plate, this will remain in place once the nuts and bolts have been removed and will make life easy to reinstall the plates after all the painting etc has been completed.